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Monday, November 30, 2015

I hope you’re ready for every movie ever to either involve
dudes in tight who can fly, or punch through walls or whatever, or
Star Wars, because that’s about everything that will be
filling your local metroplex for the foreseeable future. Marvel and
Star Wars are already in the running to be the biggest
things ever, and DC is about to get in on the act, too, starting with
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. Though the movie doesn’t
drop until March, we got a look at a fresh new clip.

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

Last night, getting ready to go to bed, I checked one last
time to see if the Captain America: Civil War trailer had
dropped. It had. I promptly watched it three times back-to-back-to-back. And
then I watched it two more times on my phone before I finally turned off the
lights. And a few times again this morning. Because this is Marvel we’re
talking about, rest assured that the next few months will be a monumental
deluge of clips, TV spots, and marketing of all stripes, but to be honest, I’d
be completely satisfied if they don’t release anything more than this trailer.

Monday, November 23, 2015

I am and always will be a complete and total sucker for any
Rocky movie. It’s not a franchise many expected to continue
after the fifth installment, and there was a collective groan in 2006 for
Rocky Balboa, which turned out to be great. Still, in 2015,
we were left asking ourselves if we really needed another
movie, and after watching Creed, I’m going to come out and
say yes, yes we did.

Sunday, November 22, 2015

By the time December 18 rolls around, it feels like we’ll
have seen all of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, though it’s
being revealed one shot at a time. Yet another TV spot has hit the airwaves,
and this one features some fun moments, but also quick glimpses of a new
character and another familiar face from the original trilogy.

Thursday, November 19, 2015

As the title implies, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2 is not a movie that tells a complete story. While
last year’s Mockingjay—Part 1 was like watching the first half
of a to-be-continued TV episode, Part 2 is a lot like
picking up a book, opening to the middle, and starting from there. For those of
you familiar with the dystopian woes of Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence)
and the drama in the near-future world of Panem, this provides a mostly
satisfactory conclusion the saga.

If traditional Christmas fare like Miracle on 34th
Street and It’s a Wonderful Life are, well, a bit
too traditional for your tastes—by that I mean there’s little to no hard drug
use, few if any curse words, and absolutely no close up images of genitals—then
2015 is your lucky year. This holiday season we have director Jonathan Levine’s
The Night Before, and it is crude, crass, sweeter than you
may expect, and, most importantly, really goddamn funny.

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Hey, it’s been a couple of days since we’ve seen anything
new from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, right? Well, now with
just a month left on the clock before we see it, here’s yet another new TV spot
with even more fresh, shiny footage. Spoilers live after the jump if you’re
afraid of such things.

Sunday, November 15, 2015

This is starting to get a little ridiculous. Not that I
don’t love getting new looks at Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but damn near every day we’re getting yet another glimpse of
as-yet unrevealed footage or behind-the-scenes peek (not to mention the upcoming
a capella tribute to Star Wars scheduled for the American
Music Awards broadcast?), and that includes today, with another
hot-off-the-presses TV spot.

Thursday, November 12, 2015

The 33 is exactly the movie that you
expect. Based on the harrowing true-life tale of survival of Chilean miners who
were trapped underground for more than two months after a mine collapse in
2010, it is a tremendous tale of survival. This is a truly amazing story of
perseverance in the face of immeasurable odds. Told as it is, however, as
incredible as the events are, given that much more weight because they actually
happened, the film plays like an investigative news report with some cheesy
triumphant speeches thrown into the mix.

Donnie Yen is a bad, bad man (and he’s going to be in a
Star Wars movie). So is Mike Tyson (in just about every way
you can be). And now we get to see the martial arts legend throw down with one
of the greatest boxers in history in the latest trailer for Ip Man
3. Have fun with this one.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Even though he’s moved away from it in recent years,
focusing his eviscerating razor eye on other areas, David Cronenberg first made
his name in body horror. With films like Scanners, Rabid,
and Shivers, the Canadian shock auteur played on our
visceral fears about ourselves, our bodies, and the terrors that lurk inside.
One of his absolute masterpieces in this realm is 1979’s psychotronic magnum
opus The Brood, which just got an expansive Criterion
Collection release, and is a must-own for fans of the film, Cronenberg, or
movies that unnerve you to your very core.

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Remember when people were speculating that we weren’t going
to see much more new footage from Star Wars: The Force Awakens before the movie hits theaters? Yeah, we were very wrong.
Lucasfilm has unleashed what, for this movie anyway, qualifies as a veritable
deluge of new footage, including that awesome Japanese trailer and a new TV
spot that features a bunch of new shots.

Friday, November 6, 2015

I haven’t regularly played any video game since
Legend of Zelda on the original Nintendo Entertainment
System. That includes World of Warcraft, but I’m all in for
big fantasy epics, so Duncan Jones’ adaptation of the popular online game,
Warcraft, is a film I’ve been curious about. Though this
movie feels like it has been on the way for years (I keep forgetting it is
happening), today arrives with a brand spanking new trailer for us to gawk at.
Check it out below.

Quentin Tarantino may be engaged in an epic war of words
(and thinly veiled threats) with police departments across the country, but
while that situation spins steadily out of control, let’s not forget that
The Hateful Eight is on the way. A new Tarantino movie is
always worth getting excited about, and I’ll take a gritty, violent western any
day of the week, so when the two come together, goddamn. And just in case you
can’t wait, there’s a new trailer to check out.

Well, so much for my theory that we weren’t going to see
anymore new Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailers before the
movie opens. This new Japanese trailer is making the rounds, and it’s full of
new footage in a few juicy tidbits to pore over. Watch it below and we’ll get
to the spoiler-y stuff after that.

Thursday, November 5, 2015

If the idea Kickboxer: Vengeance, a
reboot of Jean-Claude Van Damme’s 1989 classic Kickboxer,
simply one of greatest movies ever made, sounds like blasphemy, I think we’ll
get along just fine. Still, it’s happening whether we like it or not, and we’ve
got some new looks at the cast.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Movie fans, and really even non-movie fans, around the world
are all kinds of amped up about the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It’s to the point where we’re pouring over every frame of
the most recent trailer, examining any toy or coloring book we can get our
hands on, and reading into every last image trying to glean any possible nugget
of information. Lucasfilm just released a handful of new character posters, and
while they don’t reveal much in the way of information, they are damn cool.

If you weren’t already pumped as all hell for Shane
Carruth’s upcoming big budget action movie The Modern Ocean—and let’s be fair, just the fact that he’s not taking nine
years between directorial projects is worth getting excited for—he’s putting together
an insane cast.

Monday, November 2, 2015

Spectre, the latest James Bond film,
begins with a blistering opening scene, the kind of action sequence that, when
you stumble across the movie on TV years from now, you’ll stop what you’re
doing and watch, even if you don’t stick around for the rest. Set in Mexico
City during a massive Day of the Dead celebration, the international man of
mystery tracks a target through the crowd of skull-mask clad revelers. Visually
striking, intricately staged, and beginning with a soaring, uninterrupted take,
it starts the movie out on a high note (though there’s a missed opportunity for
a singularly James Bond moment at the end). The ensuing film, however, never
quite measures up to this opening.

Adapting anything, much less a cult favorite comic book
like, say, Garth Ennis’ infamously blasphemous Preacher, is
difficult enough. When bringing a violent, explicative and sex laden, and sacrilegious
text to life, it’s even harder on TV and the restrictions of that medium. But
that’s exactly what the creative team of Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg are doing
at AMC, and the first trailer is here.